Shelves for BIG 3 wheeler toys

[Bigbore]

I’m still trying to get my shop put together and thought I do something to clean it up, or at least find the floor. I have crap everywhere in my shop so I decided to buy 2 sets of pallet racks. I thought I could use them to put my toys on and clear up some floor space. They weren’t cheap but they sure are nice. Each one is 10’ long and 10’ high. I need to buy 2 more for the other wall for some of my other toys. (What I should have done is went to Home Depot to ask if they had any used ones that they wanted to sell) They have wire decks and are rated for 4,400 lbs. per shelve.

What do you guys think?

[atctim]

Very very very nice. Looks AWESOME! I like it alot, but how do you get the units up and down? Do you have a fork truck or something?

I have a shelf unit that currently holds 6 or 7 little guys (110s, 70s, Zingers), but it is only one level high and I can use my truck ramps to push my trikes up and down from them.

[Billy Golightly]

Wow, that is awesome. I need something like that for my shop...

[brrcuda]

how do you get them down?

I was thinking of something similar in my garage but much smaller.

Nice rare trikes you got there.

[Orangecnty250r]

I like it alot...Wish home depot had those on their racks to purchase with the home depot credit card!!!!!!!!!!.I bought a bunch of old home depot racks at a flea market a few years back $1.00 each beam and 20.00 each end .....not as high as those but you could stack by bolting them.

[brapp]

thats a great idea . i used to have somethign along those lines at my old shop but i had them on skids and lifted them with the skidsteerbut i a goign to do a low shelf liek atctim has done. mabey put a few of the project bikes and the nice ones i dont ride up on it.

[oldsking86]

Damn we had those big shelves like at home depot in our old shop, we have some of the little one level ones left, I think we need to do that! It never came to our mind before haha

[LonesomeTriZ]

I am working of the same damn thing in my shop. I am alos working on a deal to get some of that heavy whare house shelving. I know where a cheap fork lift is sitting that is small enough to work.

[gizmo_22]

Big Bore, what is that trike on the 2nd shelf to the right? It looks like an aftermarket 185 frame, with an xr200 engine? Id like to get some info on that :)

[sj13]

im jealous!

[scooterroo]

wow, thats awesome bigbore.... but like everyone else is asking, how the heck do you get them up and down from there? fork lift? oh by the way awesome looking nick, if that is a nick. and the franks trike is pretty badash also.

[Bigbore]

I used my Bobcat with pallet forks on them. I made a pallet long enough and wide enough to put the 3 wheeler on and lift it up to the rack and slide onto the rack. They rack really work awesome. Only took and hour to set up. Reminds me of a Hot Wheels car carrier or something.

Top shelf center and right: are the Franks 3 wheeler and 4 wheeler I bought 6 months ago. Center shelf right: is my Nicholson 500X. Its the one I bought in December. There some more photo's of it here search: Nicholson

When I get the other shelves up I'll show you guys some of my other 3 wheelers;) .

[225DX DUDE]

What is that franks trike on the top shelf next to the 250r? Never seen one of them before!?

[370banshee]

I’m still trying to get my shop put together and thought I do something to clean it up, or at least find the floor. I have crap everywhere in my shop so I decided to buy 2 sets of pallet racks. I thought I could use them to put my toys on and clear up some floor space. They weren’t cheap but they sure are nice. Each one is 10’ long and 10’ high. I need to buy 2 more for the other wall for some of my other toys. (What I should have done is went to Home Depot to ask if they had any used ones that they wanted to sell) They have wire decks and are rated for 4,400 lbs. per shelve.

What do you guys think?

do i spy a tiger super 4 in the upper right corner?

[atctim]

Holy Rare Trikes Batman!

[scooterroo]

do i spy a tiger super 4 in the upper right corner?

no thats a franks quad....do a search on the forum, awesome looking quad, bigbore is one lucky guy.

[ATCwithdrawals]

Nice set up BigBore , and the trophy trike{franks} really looks nice up there. I've had to do a same set up in my two small storage buildings just to make room for all the trikes. I Have to build a bigger building in the future.

[Rustytinhorn]

Looks awsome, I was thinking of doing something similiar when I build my workshop (shed). Some type of overhead storage or stacking to save space.
Did you bolt the pallet rack shelving to the wall. It might sound stupid, thats untill an earthquake hits. If I remember right, there is also a plate of steel on the bottom of each vertical bean* where you can bolt it to the floor. Cheap insurance.

*(edit: haha, I meant BEAM)

[chris200x]

FYI.. sometimes you can go to your local walmart and ask the manager if they have some "green steel" lying around out back that their not using or going to throw out. I know this because when I used to work there I hadda help load the guys truck up with it. Never thought about using it for trikes though. pretty cool!

[NINJA]

Dang those are some sweet machines! *turns the color of tecate with envy*
Nice rack!

[icp4life162005]

hey chris what is green steel???

[chris200x]

Thats what they call those racks that they use back in the stock rooms at wally world.

[icp4life162005]

ohh cool. i might get some of them just for the steel.

[370banshee]

franks huh??? never heard of them.. must have been a small comany huh..

[Bigbore]

franks huh??? never heard of them.. must have been a small comany huh..

Here's some info on the Frank's
http://www.3wheelerworldforums.com/showthread.php?t=65973&highlight=franks

[Dirtcrasher]

If you guys live near an industrial park, you may want to do a Sunday Search mission..... Behind most huge warehouses are lots of racks that aren't being used or they got hit and tweaked with a fork lift or high lifts and they throw them away.

I know we had piles upon piles at my last job just rotting away....